Chapter 5: Bonds Tested (Noon)
The captain new something was wrong when he heard a pound against the door and with two then three taps, he knew they shouldn't have let the Director out without backup. But when he and his team agents had tried to get the door open they found it locked immediately going to turn the dial unable to whatsoever. Then the door had been unlocked the door partially open and before his boys could raise their guns two metal ball-like canisters had been tossed in with the door shut and locked once more. Remzi hadn't been prepared nor had the agents in with him and instantly the room was covered in smoke and the fumes from the gas filled the air forcing Aaron back stumbling with him and his crew coughing covering their noses and mouths but the coughing grew worse and their bodies dropped to the ground in heaps.
Amelia and Lena had struggled to stay conscious and with a last ditch effort the Luthor kicked the valve on the tank grabbing the oxygen mask before her legs gave out on her. Dropping onto her back she pushed the mask over her face and took in a couple long breaths to hold her own and push it over Hamilton's face. When the doctor signaled to her with a thumbs up she brought the mask off her and back over her own face. Lena watched Amelia point to the cupboard and knew what she meant and gave her another hit on the tank as she forced her body upright and pulled the woman up with her.
Between deep breaths in, deep breaths held and slow steady steps they made their way to the cabinet and Hamilton grabbed one of the portable tanks from it after using her combination to undo the lock on the doors of it. They traded back and forth the fresh air as Amelia secured the hose to the valve and twisted the coupling over the hose that the mask was attached to. She gave a thumbs up and Lena put the mask back on her face to breathe in the fresh air. When the woman put the mask back over her own she felt Lena's hand clasp her arm and knew the drugged air was taking its toll. Amelia slipped the mask strap over her head securing it grabbing a second tank and mask quickly attaching the pieces then shoving the one away Lena had pressed over herself to replace it with a fresh tank tightening the strap around her head.
"Lena? Talk to me?" The CEO didn't talk but acted and ran over to slam the lights off at the wall which would black out the camera's view as she pointed to the curtains. Amelia nodded and both of them carefully but quickly pulled the curtain around both kryptonians. "Nice."
"The suits will keep their air fresh for the moment." Lena whispered to her leaning down to check on the unconscious agents. "We need to get tanks on Aaron, Joe and Lucas and try to get their systems clear. How many spares do you have?"
"I've got seven total but these tanks only have an hour tops of air. We will need to get out of here before the tank meter gets to ten percent, and use our air wisely. No quick breaths, long ones steady ones." Lena nodded as they both began to attach the items to turn on the tanks and slip the masks over the three agents. "How long can they breathe on their own in those suits?"
"Long enough." Alura spoke up rushing down to help both women back up to their feet. She was careful to keep her voice down. "For the time being I activated my daughter's suit to pure silence mode. If Kara starts to wake or panic I will know, I will hear her heartbeats change."
"Alex?" Lena asked but the kryptonian shook her helmet covered head. "Shit."
"I can break open the door but we will have to subdue the agents on the other end. I feel they have been, how you say, compromised." Alura paused her words when she felt the bodies on the floor shift in their heartbeats. "They are awake."
"Ohh….wh...ugh.." Aaron groaned but when he saw the armor suited kryptonian over him a finger to her face in a motion for him to be quiet he took the hint. "Boys...shut up."
"Alura, is Kara okay?" But the woman had dashed toward the door and with heat vision and one forceful kick she'd sent the slab right off the hinges which hit a few of the agents with her rushing out and taking down the rest. "Okay…"
"How quick can you get to the other agents and warn them off the breech?"
"Faster than you think and I'll have them all injected again to clear anyone else compromised of their warping." Aaron told Alura and him and his team prepared to run out stopping to bend down and hand Amelia and Lena both guns. "Hope your certified doc."
"You can bet your ass I am." Hamilton told Remzi and watched as they ran out and Lena cocked the gun in her hand charging it up. "Does that suit of yours have a big enough tank or able to hold another one?"
"It doesn't need it. It filters fresh air." Lena answered her securing the head mask on locking it in place. "Alura?"
"Get back, BACK!" The kryptonian yelled and dove back into the room her eyes on the door her fists clenched. "Agent...you've been brainwashed!"
"Pleeeeeease. Her kind have been the ones to brainwash all of us." Gregory spoke up holding two glowing green knives in his gloved hands. He had a mask over part of his face but his voice rang clear in the tainted air. "Hand over the mutt." Alura snarled at the man clenching her fists tighter. "Who are you?" This was their advantage. He didn't know whom he was talking to and that was her greatest weapon…
Kayla couldn't believe her fortune and not only having a loyal queen at the sound of her voice and snap of her fingers, but one of rich beauty of a well toned body and she pondered having a round with her before unleashing her on the alien animal. Yet there was a time for fun and games and a time for work and the second took the first priority. There would be moments for that. She held out her hand which the agent took and pulled Alex upright off her back so she was sitting on the desk after she'd uncuffed her from it.
"What would you like taken care of first Kayla." Alex asked after being told that she need not be formal with her. The devil snickered to pull the two special handguns out of her bag to hold them out to the agent. "Ooooo…"
"For you my Alexandra. I know how much you like the alien gun you got from a raid and slaughter of a factory I'd sent you to." Kayla smiled with Alex smiling at them then looking at her getting a huge grin. "It appears our plans have been interrupted a little sooner than we thought. Get the suit on and show me the hidden tunnel to get us out of here. Anyone tries to stop us, you aren't to kill them. We don't kill humans, we reform them."
"Even traitors?" Alex asked suiting up admiring the slick design of this armored suit. "This is incredible and so powerful. I feel as if I can light on fire in this."
"You can. I made that suit for you. The stupid animal stole it and brought it back here to try to destroy. That is the animal that kidnapped you, and drugged your parents to take your father away and warp to her side." Kayla explained to the suited up phoenix admiring the design indeed. That monster did have some talent. She'd enjoy creating more like Alex's for her loyal soldiers. "As much as I'd love to continue this, we need to blow this popsicle stand and break out of here. You remember the passage from last time you broke out?" The agent nodded.
Both heard several howls, impacts against walls, rough slams against the floor, weapons firing and screams….then nothing but silence. "What the hell…"
"ALEX? ALEX!" This was a voice Kayla didn't recognize whatsoever but her lethal beauty was fueled in combat and defense and her guns both charged hummed with her clicks of the safety flicked off she now held in a rather fighter style stance to aim at the door. "ALEX?! Alex thank...Rao.."
Alura didn't expect the weapons her daughter's big sister had aimed on her. The tension mounted in her as the easy stride of war rumbled through the agent. "What have you done to her?" She felt the shift behind her to see both Susan and Lena suited up in their armor gear. They ran up and joined her in the doorway as their bodies froze by the sight Alura had already endured. "Alex?"
"Hmmff...filth. Why don't both you brainwashed humans step away from the monster." Alex smirked under the shade of her full head armor. "After all...shouldn't you thank Kayla for the suits?"
"How dare…" Lena held up her arm blocking Susan from her intention.
"She didn't make your suit or ours Alex. Your SISTER did! Your sister that HER monsters that HER sword wounded so badly your heart broke painfully! Kara made your suit Alex. Kara, YOUR SISTER!" Lena raised her voice hoping to talk some sense into Alex. But no ounce of the woman showed any change. "Alex?"
"Put both agents down. Don't kill them. But the one in the middle….KILL HER!" Kayla snickered with her command.
"SHIT!" Both Lena and Susan watched the Director rush at them and they both knew Alex's battle gear made her much faster than theirs could muster. The impact never came. Alura rushed passed Alex and slammed the bitch hard against the wall with a force of a tank sending Kayla's body dropping like a sack of potatoes to the ground. Then the angered kryptonian had grabbed hold of Alex using every ounce of her solar cells after powering down the suit Lena made her and doing what she needed to, to bring the Director down.
"GET OFF! GET OFF YOU BEAST!" Alex growled shouting at the one locking her arms behind her and without grip on the gauntlets she couldn't summon the torch or break open the wings of the suit. Wait a minute… "...w...i….n….g...s.." She thought about that and strangely the idea of flying brought a calm to her which stopped her struggle in the kryptonian's grasp. "Wings...flying…"
"ALEX!" Her head flung up with Alura ripping off Alex's full head mask and the woman in the doorway breathing heavily with green trailing all over her now so visible veins. "Alex….sis… .big….sister...Ally...hel...ppp…" The agent watched the poisoned woman collapse to her knees weakly before her eyes. "Al….ex...El...Maya...rah.." The guns dropped out of Alex's hands clattering at her feet with her entire frame shaking horribly. She kept staring with images slamming through her brain, memories that had been shut off for the one that she had fought these people for. It was as if Kayla's knockout knocked the sense back into her and when Alura released her she dove forward and slid down to the floor where her sister was seizing from the exposure without the protective suit covering her.
"No...no no no...no Kara...no.." Alex gathered her limp sister in her arms and dashed out rushing to the med bay operating room hollering to Hamilton hollering help in general. "AMELIA! HELP!" She wouldn't lose Kara again, not ever again. Her darkness almost her own little sister's undoing...
"Alex? KARA!" Hamilton ran over and grabbed the spare tank from the cupboard to shakingly attach a hose and mask slipping to Kara's side close to her head slipping the mask over her face turning up the tank praying it was enough. "Alex.."
"Danvers! WAIT!" Lena shouted running in with Susan and Alura on her heels. "We need to get her to my underground lab. I have what is needed to extract the kryptonite out of her system!"
"Where is this place?" Alura asked preparing to fly her daughter, the Director and Luthor wherever she needed to if it helped Kara.
"Dammit Kar….fly us...we need to go now!"
"Go with them and I will grab Amelia and meet you there!" Susan ordered as she watched Remzi's team run passed them. "They've got the bitch Alex. GO!"
"I've got her Alex. You and Lena hold on.." Alura held her daughter tightly as both women wrapped their arms around her and she lifted off the ground to push the force of her thrust rocketing up and using her heat vision to make a big enough hole for them. The kryptonian took to the crystal clear sunlit sky and held onto her precious cargo refueling her cells to soar where Lena pointed as the woman gave her strict instructions while giving her navigation advice. Alura followed the directions and suggestions to a T. The sooner she got her daughter out of harm's way the better.
The mother, the sister all rested their hopes and prayers on Lena's shoulders to come through for Kara and bring Supergirl back into their skies, into the warmth she'd always given them. Lena looked at her watch realizing how long it had been. They needed to get the blonde to her lab to her machines and fast. The tank connected to the mask on Kara was down to ten percent. They didn't have much time left before the fallen hero would have to breathe the open air that Lena dreaded was tainted like the DEO. Lena had to fix this. She had...to bring Kara back to her...